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June 9, 1912 "It was Children's Day. I think we were the last to see them alive."
106 years ago this day in the thriving railroad village of Villisca, Iowa, Josiah and Sara Moore spent their last day together with their children Herman, Katherine, Boyd and Paul. Katherine's friends Lena and Ina Stillinger spent the day in town getting ready for the Presbyterian Church Children's Day evening service and were given permission by their sister Blanche to stay the night with the Moore family.
A Timeline Leading up to the June 10, 1912 Villisca, Iowa axe murders
6:30 am:
Henry Enarson calls the Reverend Ewing home to ask if visiting minister, Reverend Lyn George Jacklin Kelly can stay with Reverend and Mrs. Ewing this evening. Ewing agrees to host Kelly.
8:00 am-8:30am:
From his field, Joseph Stillinger sees Lena & Ina Stillinger walking toward Villisca for Sunday School.
The Methodist Church bells are ringing and it is a bright, sunny day. Alice Willard is sitting on her front porch.
Mrs. Glackmeyer prepares for the morning program at the Methodist Church. She and Miss Letha Jones have charge of the program.
The Peckham family are walking to their Christian Church. Unlike the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches, it will not hold evening services.
10:00 am:
Sunday School begins at the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches.
Bruce Stillians opens his father's drugstore for business. He cleans up the store, opens the mail, then goes for lunch.
Morning worship and sermon begin at the Presbyterian Church. Morning preaching service begins at the same time at the Methodist Church.
Sara Moore's friend, Mrs. Meyers, attends the Methodist Church in the morning. The Moore family attends the Presbyterian Church.
1:00 pm:
Lee VanGilder is walking in front of the Stillians place when he sees one of the Stillians boys go over to talk to Joe Moore.
Bruce Stillians heads to K.P. Club Room after eating supper. He stays until 7 pm.
Ed Selley goes to work at the Joe Moore Implement Store, as usual (no five-day/40 hour week in those days).
Mrs. Meyers went out on her lawn and did not notice any strangers around. She notes the air is damp. Mrs. Sara Moore stops a while to visit before walking over to the Presbyterian Church to drill the children for Children's Day exercises. Mrs. Meyers is good friends with the Moores.
Mrs. Ewing, Sara Moore and Miss Hugis work with the children on the special service to be presented at the Presbyterian Church. Lena and Ina Stillinger are there rehearsing along with Herman, Katherine, Boyd and Paul Moore. They drill until 4:00 pm.
Reverend Kelly preaches at a school house in District 10 in nearby Arlington.
H. A. Glackmeyer, insurance/real estate loan agent, lies on a couch reading at home after a satisfying dinner. It is a pleasant day. His wife clears away the dishes and notices a man going past their house. She calls to her husband, "Get up and see what is the matter with that man." He was looking over all of the houses along the street. Glackmeyer gets up, but misses seeing the man. His wife said, "You are too late, he has just gone out of sight to the north." The Glackmeyers live next door to Albert Jones. Albert lives in the first house north of the alley behind Joe Moore's house.
He sees neighbor Albert Jones painting his home's windows yellow.
3:30pm:
Ed Selley sees Joe Moore on the south side of the square on the street near the Post Office.
Harry Himiller and his wife go to C. A. Moore's to visit.
Ed and Ethel Landers and their boys are in Villisca from Shenendoah visiting Ed's mother at her home. Ed is a Real Estate man. Mother Landers lives across from Joe Moore's home. There is a vacant lot west of her house where a pasture of rye grows.
Sara and Joe Moore and their four children go to visit his parents, as they do every Sunday.
Ed Selley has dinner at his brother-in-law's home.
EJ Mann, manager of the Fisher Hotel in Villisca, is on duty this evening.
No time specified:
Ethel Landers helps Mrs. Posten, her sister in law, serve up the evening meal at the restaurant. Ed Landers joins in.
The supper hour begins at Mrs. Poston's Café.
Blanche Stillinger receives a call from Joe Moore asking if Lena & Ina can stay the night at their home. The girls are afraid to walk to their grandmother's in the dark. Blanche gives permission.
Sisters Lena and Ina Stillinger.
Katherine and the Stillinger girls bring milk to Mrs. Ewing. They are in a hurry due to other deliveries. The girls are excited and tell her that they are planning on staying over night at the Moore's home.
Mary Peckham says she sees the Stillinger girls at the Moore house and learns the girls are going to stay the night.
Lawrence Gridley, 17, drives his horse and buggy into the alley and begins to unhitch it with the help of Fred Fryer and Vern Robinson--they put the horse in the barn they rent in back of Churchhill's property. Joe Moore has pigs in a fenced in area in a vacant lot in back that he rents and he is doing chores. Gridley had just purchased the buggy 6 weeks prior from the Joneses. Albert Jones and Joe Moore walk up and look over the horse as Lawrence unhitches it. They take the horse to the barn to feed him. Albert Jones says to Gridley, "A pretty good looking rig you are driving." Joe and Albert chat back and forth while looking over the horse. Gridley had seen Albert and Joe out doing their chores at the same time, many times. Joe and Albert talked a bit about the buggy business. Joe said, "I came pretty near selling that fellow a buggy." Albert said, "Did you?" Joe says, "Yes, sir."
Mr. Enarson arrives at the Ewing house in his automobile with Reverend Kelly. Kelly wants to take the early morning train in order to get home to Macedonia.
William Lear escapes from the Clarinda asylum heading toward Creston.
One mile east of Villisca, dairyman Mr. Talbet sees a man come, "...out of the timber and went toward Villisca." His wife and their servant girl also saw him. The family were on their way into town for church and passed the man on the road a short distance east of the Moore home.
The first bell rings for the young people's services at the Presbyterian church.
Dan Stillians and his friend Goldie Mitchell sit in his parents' front room and look at a postcard album together.
Joe Moore's brother Fenrik Moore arrives at the Villisca Depot on the No. 2 and goes to visit his parents.
Rev. Ewing and Reverend Kelly head to the church for the "Young People's Meeting" service.
The "Young People's Meeting" begins in the rear room of the church.
The "Young People's Meeting" begins at the Methodist Church.
The Advent Church gets ready for the Holy Roller Preacher in town to come and preach at their church. The church is lit up and waiting. He never shows.
Villisca Town Marshall Hank Horton.
Henry (Mike) Overman, night watchman, comes on duty. He meets Hank Horton on the street and they proceed to the jail where they talk a while. They walk back down through the park. Horton is to meet his wife on the corner after church. Overman continues on his rounds, checking doors and the alleys. He goes from the Bank to the Depot and then to the square to the stores ensuring the doors are locked.
Bruce Stillians leaves the K. P. Club Room and walks to his girlfriend's house. He stays until around midnight.
Mary Peckham sees the Moore's walking to church. The Moore house had been quarantined for small pox until just prior to this. It was the second time the house had been quarantined.
Mrs. Ewing sees the Moores & the Stillinger girls head up the street to church.
Joe's brother Ross Moore and his wife Jessie stay home for the evening with guests who are visiting their home.
Mrs. F. F. Jones and her daughter, Letha, call on Mrs. Glackmeyer to ask if she would like to go to the Presbyterian service with them. A holy roller minister was scheduled at the Methodist Church, so they opted to see the Children's Day program in the Presbyterian Church. Letha went to ask if her sister-in-law Dona would join them, but she and Albert had just returned from Clarinda on the train and decided not to go. The three women head on to the church.
The church bells ring signaling the beginning of the services.
Reverend Ewing seats Reverend Kelly on the south side of the church in the south section of seats, either the first or second seat from the rear door--the rear seats were short seats, enough for one or two people to set in them.
Children's Day Service at the Presbyterian Church begins a bit late.
Rev. Wesley Ewing sits behind Sara Moore, on the north side of the church about the second seat from the front. He recalls Joe sitting on the north side of the church along the north aisle two or three seats from the rear. Ewing notes that the church is full.
A son is born to Mr. & Mrs. Fred Fishor, 7 miles southwest of Villisca.
After 8:00 pm:
Mary Peckham retires for the evening a little after 8. Her bedroom is upstairs in the south room (facing the street). Her son's, Ernest, is in the east room. Ernest kept late hours, so no one knows when he went to bed.
Mrs. Poston, calls supper off at her restaurant. After cleaning up, the Postons and the Landers visit about the Landers California vacation news in which they had just returned for days ago. The Postons lock up the restaurant, and walk with Ethel and Ed Landers. They walk together as far as the Poston's home, then they make their way past the show on the east side of the square and then past the school house, then turn down the street to his mother's home where they are staying. Ethel Landers does not see anybody on the street, nor on the porch of the Moore's house.
Next door neighbor H.A. Glackmeyer sees Albert Jones in the yard with his chickens, and then sees him go into his house. Glackmeyer is playing with the children in the yard and can see the Jones' parlor. He can see Dona and Albert Jones working at the dining room table.
9:00 pm-10:00 pm:
Mrs. M. A. Landers said that she and her son's family retired for the evening at 9pm. She had no electric lights in her home, only lamp light. When she was alone, it was her custom to leave her lamp burning down a little bit. "The clock struck nine after Ed and his wife went upstairs."
The Children's Day program at the Presbyterian Church ends. Rev. Ewing noted that the Stillinger girls walked in to church on Sunday mornings from their country home 2 1/2 miles away.
An unidentifiable man passes by Horton and nightwatchman Overman by the west side of the park. He is a small-sized "fellow" with "heavy shoulders", and wears a bell-top cap. Horton says it was "very dark", no street lights on, no moon shining, cloudy. Hank Horton tries to speak to the fellow. He tells Overman "Why don't you throw your light on that fellow?" Overman replied "I don't think it is necessary." Horton said, "I always make them speak to me."
The Moore's stay after the service while flower bouquets for the sick are prepared. Sara plans to take one to give to a family across the street from their home.1
Ervalene Curtis in Villisca, Iowa on her pony. She was friends with the Moore children. (Photo: Fourth Wall Films, all rights reserved.)
14-year-old Ervalene Curtis and her family walk the Moore family and Lena and Ina Stillinger out of the church and bid them good night. Ervalene said, "I think we were the last to see them alive."
Rev. Kelly waits around the church for the Ewings to finish up. Kelly speaks to no one and Ewing introduces him to no one. Ewing felt "a little bit guilty that I had not asked Kelly to take part in the services."
Albert Himiller, 14, and his girl Hazel Winters leave the service and go buggy-riding.
Mrs. F. F. Jones, Letha Jones and Mrs. Glackmeyer leave the service on foot for home. The walk Mrs. Glackmeyer to her door, "It was a very dark night and I said at the corner that I would be on one side and they on the other and that I wouldn't be afraid, but they said they wouldn't, and they took me to my door going home." The street lights fail to come on at dusk.
Ed Selley leaves his brother-in-law's house for home. Once he arrives home, he turns in for the evening.
After 10:00 pm:
Mr. and Mrs. John Montgomery and their two sons (one 16, the other 10) retire after an entire evening at home. Mr. Montgomery is a miller. They reside on the SW corner of Fourth and Fifth Streets.
Ed Landers said he positively did not see anybody around the Moore house that evening.
Young Floyd & Orville Watt walk the Moores and Stillinger girls home to the Moore's house. The house was dark. They boys see Joe take a key from his pocket, as the door was locked. One of the little girls says she sees a man behind a tree.
Dan Stillians, 18, goes to VanCamp's restaurant for a meal. He talks with several other boys there, as he usually does. He is joined by "Franky Robinson", 16. About half an hour later they leave the restaurant together and start goofing off and playfully arguing. Then they run a foot race from the southwest to the NW corner of the square.
Mr. and Mrs. Glackmeyer are up with their two year old son much of the night, as he has whooping cough. They hear no strange noises.
Andy Sawyer buys a nickels worth of meat at a market in Osceola and cooks his supper around some ties, where two other hobos join him. They are told to leave town by a marshal. They get on a train heading to Creston.
"The Little Minister" Rev. Lyn George Jacklin Kelly.
The Ewings, with Mr. Kelly, are the last to leave the church. They have two children: a girl, 2, a boy, 9. Rev. Ewing lights the house and he, Mrs. Ewing and Rev. Kelly sit and converse about the exercises of the evening, Kelly's ministerial work, and English customs.
Mr. and Mrs. Poston turn in for the night after a busy day at the Café.
11:00 pm:
After chatting with Rev. Kelly, the Ewings hold a devotional prayer and then retire for the evening. Ewing says Kelly did not betray any signs of nervousness this night. They show Kelly (with his one grip in hand) to his room with the balcony, and get him an alarm clock which they set for 4:30 am.
The Ewings go to their tent outside where their children are already sleeping. The night is cloudy and chilly.
Albert Himiller, 14, drops his girlfriend, Hazel Winters, off at her home after finishing their buggy riding. He heads into Villisca passing the cemetery north of Villisca, and then down the street along the east side of the city park. As he drives his rig south on Fourth Avenue, he sees two men standing on the intersection of the sidewalk on the corner Southwest of F. F. Jones home. His pony is acting shy at something. He throws his flashlight on the men's backs, they are about 40-45 feet from him. There were no street lights on. The street is not paved. Himiller continues down town to find a restaurant. They are all closed, so he goes home.
Sometime before midnight:
Dan Stillians arrives home after having a bite to eat at VanCamps Restaurant, and goofing of with Frankie Robinson. An electric light is lit in the sitting room of his house. He turns it off and goes up to the north room of his parents' home where he and his older brother Bruce, 22, share a room.
The Ewings have a restless night of sleep, as their little girl is somewhat sick during the night, which keeps them awake.
Midnight:
Lee VanGilder leaves Villisca from Porter Marsh's restaurant at midnight. He & Joe Beason ride their horses out of town, down to the corner of the First National Bank, heading east out of town to the first road north to Farmer Peter House where he works.
Kelly stands on the Ewing porch balcony outside his room. He thinks he hears something that later he describes as the thud of an axe.
Bruce Stillians leaves his girlfriend's house and walks to Billy VanCamp's to sleep in the tent--it was customary during the summer months--this would change after the murders.
Mike Overman, after making his rounds, goes to Miller's restaurant down by the depot. He sees two young fellows there that have no place to sleep for the night. Overman takes them up to the jail on the north side of the square to the beds. Each man had his own cell. Overman leaves the jail and walks to the park and sits on the corner where he can watch everyone. It was a very dark night. There were no street lights. "We didn't have any burning at that time; it was trouble [with] the council." He sits there until 2:00 am.
The Josiah Moore home in Villisca, Iowa where 8 people were found murdered on June 10, 1912.
Eight members of the Josiah B. Moore family and two visiting Stillinger girls are murdered with an axe while they slept between midnight and 2:00 a.m. June 10, 1912.
To order the award-winning feature-length documentary Villisca: Living with a Mystery by Emmy-nominated filmmakers Kelly & Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, click HERE! The film features Villisca axe murder expert and hisorian Edgar V. Epperly, former FBI Special Agent and forensic profiler Robert K. Ressler, and eye-witnesses.
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Villisca Walking Tour Makes Strides Online
A portion of a scale model of Villisca, Iowa's town square.
Walking through Villisca's mobile History Tour
Written by Roxanna Sieber, Villisca Economic Development Director
Courtesy The Villisca Review
Villisca has a fascinating history, a blend of history and mystery. We have a story to tell. Our story expresses some of the endearing qualities that makes living in Villisca forever an adventure. In many ways Villisca is typical of many of the small rural communities that dot the Iowa landscape. While we have many similarities, like our name, there is only one Villisca. We have a story to tell. Chuck Offenberger, a renowned columnist for the Des Moines Register in the 1990s, once described Villisca as "A nice little town where something awful once happened." Carolyn Gage, former publisher of the Villisca Review, wrote in 2000, "While it is not pleasant for Villisca to be remembered as the site of these murders, it is foolish to ignore what happened. History, no matter how painful, should never be rewritten." So, we tell the story. While the events of that night in 1912 impacted life in Villisca even to this day, there is more to Villisca's history and we share some of that on the pages of a new addition to our Villisca website - m.villisca.com - where we have uploaded a Self-guided Villisca History Tour.
Nearly two years ago, I set out with what I thought would be the simple task of creating a website for mobile devices so that visitors to Villisca could have a self-guided history tour on their smart phones. Little did I know what was going to be involved in getting the project done. The site is now up and running. There is still a lot of tweaking of the design of the site to be done. And I feel confident that as people explore this History Tour of Villisca, there will be tweaking that needs to be done with the narratives and more pieces of history to be added. (One thing still to be added are maps for each page.)
Our story is reflected in the unsolved 1912 axe murders, in patriotism illustrated by those who have stepped forward time and time again to answer the call of their country to serve in the military, which was memorialized in a Pulitzer Prize winning photo, to everyday people distinguishing themselves with academic, business and cultural accomplishments. Historically, Villisca provides an environment in which people flourish. It is a community of people with diverse interests and backgrounds; a community of individualists. As Liz Murray noted in Homeless Harvard, "History - It is each of us - it is all of us.
The "tour" is presented in two ways: 1. There is the complete tour which starts at the square and then visits a number of places in town; 2. There are also pages which focus on specific areas of interest - the 1912 Unsolved Axe Murders, the Pulitzer Prize winning photo "The Homecoming", Villisca's Military History, the place of Railroading in our history, Villisca's Cemetery and Villisca's Faith Community. Did you know that at one time the Catholics held Mass in a "Chapel Car" on a railroad siding? That Villisca once had an airport? That there was a summer resort with cabins?
The self-guided Villisca History Tour is also available at www.villisca.com for those, like me, who do not have a smart phone or one of the pads or tablets. It can be found at: http://www.villisca.com/HistoryTour.html
Welcome to Villisca--past and present! Enjoy your tour!
There are many to thank in getting this project off the ground. Thanks go to the many people who provided information that was used in the narrative. I am not going to try to name them all for fear of leaving out someone. Particular thanks does go to Susie and Tom Enarson who provided information, photos of old postcards, help in sorting out conflicting pieces of historical data and to identify locations. Thanks also goes to Delbert Schroeder who helped with the information about the Company F Memorial Park and the memorials in the park. The Villisca Chamber of Commerce and the City of Villisca, in their funding of the Villisca Economic Development Initiative, made this project possible. Farmers Mutual Telephone Company is funding the monthly ISP costs for both villisca.com and m.villisca.com. CIPCO, through the VMPP, provided some funding to help in the initial stages of the site development. And I need to give a shout out to my two nephews in Florida--Hal and Phil Paxton. Phil gave me the initial idea for a mobile site. And Hal has been a checker, looking at the site once it was loaded up on the Internet, critiquing the design aspecs and suggesting changes. He has made some additional suggestions that will be implemented as time allows.
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Update: Intellectual Ventures has acquired Transmeta Patent Portfolio on Jan. 28, 2009
SANTA CLARA, CA - October 24, 2007 - Transmeta Corporation today announced that it has reached an agreement with Intel to settle all claims between them and to license the Transmeta patent portfolio to Intel for use in current and future Intel products.
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The agreement also provides for the parties to dismiss their pending patent litigation with prejudice and for a mutual general release of all claims of any type between the parties.
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Q: ¿Cómo relacionar un modelo con él mismo? rails 5 Hola amigos de StackOverflow. Quiero conectar un modelo consigo mismo (group), usando una referencia a un modelo inexistente que apunte al modelo grupo (branch), a través de otro modelo (tree), es decir una relacion has_many through.
group.rb:
class Group < ApplicationRecord
  has_many :trees
  has_many :branches, through: :trees, class_name: Tree.to_s
end

tree.rb:
class Tree < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :group
  belongs_to :branch, class_name: Group.to_s
end

Pero cuando ejecuto: Tree.create group:Group.first, branch:Group.second, obtengo este error:
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: SQLite3::SQLException: no such table: main.branches: INSERT INTO "trees" ("group_id", "branch_id", "created_at", "updated_at") VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)

Creo que dice que no encuentra el modelo branch, pero le estoy diciendo que si busca a ese modelo, que vaya a group.
¿Qué hago mal?

A: Al modelo branch indicale que la tabla a la que referencia es group de la siguiente manera self.table_name = 'groups'. Si no me equivoco los tres modelos hacen referencia a la misma tabla. Por lo tanto es necesario indicarlo también en el modelo Tree. He indicar en las relaciones el foreign_key
class Tree < ApplicationRecord
  self.table_name = 'groups'
  belongs_to :group
  has_many :branches, foreign_key: :group_id
end

class Group < ApplicationRecord
  has_many :trees, foreign_key: :group_id
  has_many :branches, through: :trees
end

class Branch < ApplicationRecord
  self.table_name = 'groups'
  belongs_to :tree
end

A: Esta solución vino a mi solo porque sí, no la encontré en ninguna documentación:
1) Se crea el modelo que se quiere enlazar, en este caso Group
2) Se crea el modelo intermedio:
rg model Tree group:references branch_id:integer
Donde rg es un alias de rails generate, y group hace referencia al modelo recién creado, adicionalmente un campo nombre_id (branch_id en este caso) tipo entero, que es el campo que guardará las ids de las relaciones.
rails db:migrate o rdm con el plugin de rails del Oh-My-ZSH
Y ya en el modelo Tree ponemos:
class Tree < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :group
  belongs_to :branch, class_name: "Group"
end

Y en el modelo Group
class Group < ApplicationRecord
    has_many :trees, foreign_key: :group_id
    has_many :branches, through: :trees, source: :branch
end

Cuando abran la consola de rails ejecuten:
Group.create name:"Grupo1"
Group.create name:"Grupo2"
Tree.create group:Group.first, branch:Group.second
Group.first.branch_ids

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9,000 Years of Sipping: The History of Alcoholism
Addiction is a problem that surrounds our world today. When was the last time you watched the news and didn't see them report a crime that was fueled by drugs or alcohol?
While addiction takes many forms, without a doubt, alcohol addiction is one of the most prevalent types. What few people realize, though, is the extensive history of alcoholism and how it has played a role in history.
When Alcohol First Began
Neither alcohol nor alcoholism is new to our modern world or to mankind. In truth, this isn't surprising. Fermenting fruits and grains is a rather simple, natural process, so it makes sense that it was an easy discovery for people to make.
Historians have discovered evidence of alcoholic drinks throughout countless civilizations from history, but the earliest known sample was from around 7000 BC. This drink was in China, and it's the earliest sample to be chemically confirmed as alcohol. It was made primarily of fermented grapes, along with several other ingredients.
Alcohol's Impact on History
The earliest alcoholic drink may have been from 9000 years ago, but since then alcohol has developed a stronghold in societies around the world. The famous and powerful have not been spared from its impact. Many influential people from history have suffered from alcoholism and even died from its effects.
Without a doubt, Van Gogh was a brilliant artist who is now revered for his talent and his vision into the world. In his time, on the other hand, his world was far bleaker.
Van Gogh was an alcoholic who primarily drank absinthe, so he suffered the ill effects of hallucinations on top of his alcoholism. Unfortunately, he took his own life at the young age of 37. The world can only wonder how much of a role his alcoholism played and how much more we could have enjoyed him otherwise.
Few people have as much of an effect on history as a US president. Known as the most powerful person in the free world at any given time, an American president can do a lot of harm if alcoholism is clouding the judgment. One of the most notorious past presidents suffered from severe alcoholism during his presidency. It was well-known among his staff that Nixon would repeatedly spend his evenings being extremely drunk.
The world is fortunate to have that staff around because there are several stories of times when Nixon's drinking would have put the world at serious risk if others hadn't intervened.
In one story, Nixon reportedly offered a White House job to an unknown woman when he was drunk at a restaurant. More shockingly, Nixon allegedly tried to convince Henry Kissinger that the US should drop a nuclear bomb on Vietnam one night. Obviously, this would have had devastating consequences for Vietnam and the world as a whole.
He may not have as much sway in world history as Richard Nixon. However, David Hasselhoff's story is one that shows how far a person can fall as the result of alcoholism. In his heyday, Hasselhoff was an American icon. He was the man so many others wanted to be.
Over the years, though, alcohol took its toll. Everything came to a head in 2007 when Hasselhoff's daughter filmed one of his many drunken evenings. The video went viral, and it brought the ugly face of alcoholism to the surface. It reminded the world that alcoholism can reduce even the most glamorous of celebrities to people with no control over their actions.
The Beginning of Healing
While alcoholism has had a strong grip on human society, there are plenty of people throughout history who have played a part in helping others break free. There is evidence of Native American societies having "sobriety circles" as early as 1750. These circles were much like today's support groups: people gathering together to support each other in their sobriety.
Today's style of rehabilitation began to take shape formally in 1935 when Alcoholics Anonymous was founded. Since then, the organization has grown throughout the US, along with the many rehabilitation centers that have emerged to help people address their alcoholism.
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While we have an ongoing effort to help individuals treat their alcoholism, our society is also waging war on the stigma of alcoholism. In the past, some people believed alcoholism was a sign of weakness or a bad decision. That stigma prevented countless people from seeking the help they needed.
In 1956, the American Medical Association took a powerful step by officially recognizing alcoholism as a disease. This started the ball rolling toward a wider understanding that alcoholism is just as much of an illness as diabetes or cancer. While the battle is ongoing, that recognition continues to spread today.
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Despite the fact that the world is wising up to alcoholism and the damage it does, we still have a long way to go. In the US alone, 88,000 people each year die from alcohol-related causes. Every single one of those 88,000 people had the potential to make the world a better place in some way.
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Octopus Energy CTO James Eddison on APIs, the Cloud and the Future of Energy
- Matthew Gooding
"We would also classify ourselves as a disruptive technology company"
James Eddison is Octopus Energy CTO. He co-founded the business in 2015 with Greg Jackson, the company's CEO.
Octopus has developed a novel cloud-based customer service platform, Kraken, which it uses to meet the needs of its 1,500,000 customers, and licenses to other energy suppliers.
An engineer by background, James tells us how cloud technology has been central to the growth of Octopus and why he believes in putting the power of the firm's novel technology back into the hands of its customers through APIs.
Hi James. Give us the low-down on Octopus Energy and what you do…
James Eddison, Octopus Energy CTO
On the face of it we're a new entrant energy supplier, with two key drivers; providing good customer service to a sector which has been not particularly successful in doing that, and a desire to make a green dent in the universe.
We would also classify ourselves as a disruptive technology company.
Greg and I come from a background of using technology to solve other people's problems, and now we're doing that in the energy sector, or the "Entech" space if you want to put an acronym on it.
We started out aiming to build the experience of customers and the experience of our support staff around technology. Because we've designed Kraken with those objectives in mind it gives us a much lower cost to serve and much higher customer satisfaction levels than taking an SAP or Oracle-type system which has its strengths but isn't designed for that purpose.
Ok… So are you an energy supplier or a technology company first?
That's a bit like asking which of your children you like better. We're a family with both, and if we weren't an energy supplier we wouldn't have the practical hands-on experience to know what's really important, and if we weren't developing our own technology we wouldn't be able to do the energy supplying part as successfully.
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We've spent 20 years building large systems, so we've got and I don't think it's immodest to say we've got a few ideas of how it should be done. There's a McKinsey report we like to quote on why most IT transformation projects fail, and it says it's because the IT department is still acting as order takers rather than decision makers.
In our company the IT department are the decision makers: I'm a director, Greg is the CEO and is very technically astute – he was writing video games when he was a kid. And the wider board and management team have been incredibly supportive about the opportunity and the challenges of building your own platform, so we've been able to deliver it progressively.
Tell us why the cloud has always been central to your business. Are there any particular tools which have been useful?
Using the cloud has enabled us to develop our platform in a highly agile and innovative way. You hear about CICD – continuous integration, continuous deployment – a lot, but this is something we've done since day one; every change in the code base can be tracked back and replayed
We used Terraform and deployed to the cloud since day one, so every change in our infrastructure is also tracked in code and auditable back to Day One; who did what, when and how. And when we deploy, we're rebuilding infrastructure because it's all part of the same deployment pipeline. We're currently doing that between 40 and 50 times per day.
We use load balances and also scaling groups so that the availability of resources flexes to to meet what we need. The average life of a server is probably it's going to be measured in minutes, it's pretty transitory in real terms.
How does this differentiate you from your competitors?
We were once asked how long it takes us to do a run of 10,000 bills on our platform compared to the industry's traditional approach. Normally energy providers are constrained by their hardware, or by their software even if they chose to run that in the cloud, and you get these long processes [to produce bills].
If we're doing a run of 10,000 bills, it becomes 10,000 tasks, and the question then is how quickly do we need to do it? We could spin up 10,000 servers to process one each, or we could have ten servers each doing 1,000. We want the run to be done in an hour so we assign the appropriate number of servers.
Now a big bill run can comprise 100,000 bills, but it still just takes an hour because that's the time we want it to take. We're able to use the same code and infrastructure and perform the task at a different scale.
You recently became an AWS partner – why did you plump for this platform over others?
We've always used AWS and I think the latest evolution is that we've got off the fence a little bit. Theoretically we could take our application and port it to Google Cloud or Azure, but when you've got a large amount of data installed and you start to use the value-adding tools around things like security that AWS offers, there's a significant upside in investing as a partner rather than just dipping your toe in the water. We also know they've got global data centres and can help us extend our reach internationally.
You have made a lot of APIs available – how do these help your business?
There was never a discussion around whether we would offer APIs to help customers access their data. At the time we thought people might want to do things like writing a Windows Mobile app; we didn't make an app ourselves because it wasn't a market we saw much future in, but we figured if you give people the data they could do it themselves.
Fast forward six years and APIs are helping us with our goals of providing transparent pricing and sustainable energy. When we launched Agile [a product which tracks energy supply every half an hour to allow customers to lower their bills by syncing their times of high consumption to times of high network capacity] we made an API available immediately, and within a couple of weeks of the product hitting the market we held a hack day where about 30 companies turned up with ideas, several of which are now in the market.
The APIs provide an eco-system where other companies can help solve the challenge of making our data easy to access for customers. We have the geeks who will write code on a Raspberry Pi and do amazing projects, but we also have guys building apps for phones and watches so that information is available to customers all the time.
This is an industry which is [otherwise] still using technologies and processes which were devised in the 1980s at the time of the market deregulation. The current pace of change means even a relatively small alteration gets built up into a long multi-million pound project, but we need to be making a material impact on climate change this decade. So technology needs to enable change, and APIs will be an interface that will be a big part of that.
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How can 'real' space pull its interactive weight in the era of ubiquitous mobile computing?
Local Projects is an interactive design studio whose work has been bleeding off screens (and between disciplines) into objects and architecture during the past few years: houses that come to life with the story of their inhabitants, augmented-reality characters who guide you around museums, and physical DNA building blocks that children can use to create new lifeforms.
— Examining the 'skeuomorphic-cycle': How physical affordances inspired digital paradigms which are now feeding back into physical interactions.
— Exploring new boundaries: How do we create seamless 'interfaces' between the digital and the physical?
— Identifying opportunities: What new experiences are possible as devices become increasingly spatially-aware, and sense a user's presence, state, or emotion?
Logistically, creating these kinds of interactions — even in low quantities — is easier and cheaper than it has ever been, but the freedom this entails amplifies design challenges. This talk equips you with some approaches and paradigms as you step into this exciting new realm for interaction design.


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The first day's youngest crescent moon (hilal) appears from different places on the earth each month, moving from east to west, as well as from south to north. Looking at the predicted crescent visibility maps for a whole year, it can be seen that the hilal first appears approximately 6 months on the southern hemisphere and the other 6 months on the northern hemisphere.
When the moon is in the northern hemisphere, it is possible to sight the hilal from the UK horizon, if people make an effort to sight it (weather permitting). However, it should be noted that the lunar year has approximately 6 months that are 29-days and 6-months that are 30-days, which means when the moon is in the northern hemisphere, it may be sighted for 3 months on the 29th day and the other 3 months on the 30th day (in different combinations).
The predicted 29th and the next day of the 1438 AH (2016 - 2017) lunar dates (when the moon is expected to be sighted on the UK horizon) are given below:
Observation Dates (for month) Observation Dates (for month)
29 & 30 Nov (Rabi-I)
29 & 30 Dec (Rabi-II)
28 & 29 Jan (Jumada-I) 27 & 28 Feb (Jumada-II)
28 & 29 Mar (Rajab)
27 & 28 Apr (Shaban)
To make a successful sighting of the hilal (even if cloudy), it is necessary to plan the observation effectively with the following considerations in mind:
Identify a high location where the western horizon can be easily seen (down to ground/sea level)
Make a note of the sunset position on a clear day with respect to the landscape a few days earlier
Use the Internet or Mobile Phone Apps to note the sunset and moonset times for the location
On the above dates, look for the hilal close to the sunset position between the above setting times
Try to use a suitable Mobile Phone App (eg. GPS Compass) to find the direction in cloudy weather
After your observation submit your result on our website (positive or negative), so it can be taken into consideration by the UK Ulama when making a decision for the start of the new month, InshaAllah.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to email us via our on-line Contact Us form.
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On the 29th day of each lunar month (and the next day), please send your urgent crescent moon (Hilal) observation report, positive or negative to:
Email: rep...@moonsighting.org.uk Or
SMS: +44 (0)7507 33 23 63 - for SMS only (ICOUK Report)
You message should include:
hijri month name
seen/not seen (result)
clear/cloudy/rainy (weather)
naked-eye/optical aid (method)
town/city (where)
date/time (when)
number in group
full name (whom)
phone/email (contact)
Note: All the above details are important. You may copy, paste and edit them in email/sms as necessary.
Once you have sent the urgent report, please submit a confirmation report later on our website as soon as possible.
Related: Importance of Moon Sighting
Hidden Phase of the Moon
The time difference between the last and first visible phases of the moon is known as the "New Moon Phase" (or Mahaq in Arabic). In between this invisible period, there is an instant of time, known as the "New Moon Conjunction" (or Waqt-tul Iqthiran in Arabic) when the sun, moon and earth come together in one line/plane.
If you are able to sight both the last waning crescent moon (from the eastern horizon before sunrise) and the first waxing crescent moon (from the western horizon after sunset), for a given location over a number of lunar months, then you can easily calculate the minimum period of Mahaq when it will be impossible to sight the new crescent moon by the human eye (without the use of any "calculations"!).
Experienced observers have stated that the duration of Mahaq is most commonly about 60 hours (2.5 days) long and in extremely rare cases it may be about 36 hours (1.5 days) long. It is not possible for it to be less than 24 hours (1day) long and hence they were not easily mislead by false sighting claims. The waning and waxing crescent moon photos below were taken from York (UK) in January 2013.
The duration of Mahaq from the above observations was 57 hrs. How many hours do you make Mahaq to be from your own observation experience?
The early Muslims were inspired by the Quran to look for the phases of the moon as stated below:
وَالْقَمَرَ قَدَّرْ‌نَاهُ مَنَازِلَ حَتَّىٰ عَادَ كَالْعُرْ‌جُونِ الْقَدِيمِ
"And (as for) the moon, We have measured for it mansions (to traverse) till it returns like the old dried curved date stalk (Urjoonil Qadim)." [Quran 36:39]
The Mufassiroon (i.e. commentators of the Quran) have stated that "Urjoonil Qadim" mentioned above is the last waning crescent moon and not the first waxing crescent moon (called Hilal in Arabic) as mentioned by some translators of the Quran (2:189)!
Moon Sighting Practice And Darul Uloom Bury
By Eng Qamar Uddin (ICOUK[1]), which was sent to Darul Uloom Bury on 10 April 2017 [download pdf] [Urdu/اردو]
The Darul Uloom Al-Arabiyyah Al-Islamiyyah, also known as Darul Uloom Bury is one of the oldest Islamic seminary (Muslims College) of its kind in the UK, which was established in 1973 by Maulana Yusuf Motala (حفظه الله). It is a boarding school for about 375 students (12 – 23 years old), to attend it's 6 years Alim (Darse-e-Nizami) course. The vast majority of the students are from the UK residents of Asian parents, who subscribe to the Hanafi (Deobandi) Maslak and is connected to the Dawah & Tabligh efforts. It is estimated that a significant portion of the Imams in the UK mosques have been produced by this seminary, which is a great contribution to the religious needs of the UK Muslim communities, alleviating the need to import Imams from abroad.
The Darul Uloom Bury has always been a proponent of following Moon Sighting news from Saudi Arabia when the UK Muslims split from following Morocco in 1986 (see the History of UK following Saudi Arabia). In the early years of the split, the errors of Moon Sighting news from Saudi Arabia was not known so following Saudi Arabia was more of a convenience rather than a necessity for the UK Muslims. It was not until 1998 when ICOP (an International Moon Sighting volunteer group) was formed, who shared the monthly moon sighting news via the Internet, the obvious errors of Saudi Arabia news became very apparent, as stated below.
On Wednesday 17 March 1999, the New Moon Conjunction was at 18:48 GMT (21:48 Saudi LT). The Bolton (Bury) sunset was at 18:16 GMT and moonset was at 17:57 GMT. The Makkah sunset was at 18:31 LT and moonset was at 18:18 LT. This means the moon was not even born until after both Makkah and Bolton sunset; and had gone below the horizon before the sunset of both places. As a result, the moon was impossible to be sighted anywhere in the world on that date. Yet, Saudi Arabia claimed the sighting of the moon earlier in the day (3.5 hrs before it was born) followed by 8 Darul Uloom Bury students (0.5 hr before it was born)! See link https://goo.gl/UH7WB6
MOON SIGHTING TESTIMONY
On Wednesday the 17th of March 1999, seven of my colleagues and I were instructed by the principal of Darul-Uloom Bury, Maulana Yusuf Motala to attempt to sight the moon. We left the Madressah at 5.50 pm to climb the local Holcombe Hill upon which Peel Tower is situated. We reached the top at 6.05 pm and situated ourselves at the highest points in two different places. The sky was clear at the time of sunset and we managed to sight the moon at 6.30 pm. The moon remained visible for at least three to five minutes before we lost sight of it. The students who sighted the moon are:
Rashid Ahmed Esakjee, Age: 27 Imran Mulla, Age: 20 Shabbir Mulla, Age: 22
Mahmood Miah, Age: 20 Shakir Pandor, Age: 21 Ismail Badat, Age: 22
Shahzad Khan; Age: 21 Zainul Abedin Yakub, Age: 22
Note: It is the duty of the Hilal Committees to establish the truth without blaming the witnesses for their errors [or innocent mistakes].
Many moon sighing experts are well aware that the news from Saudi Arabia is influenced by their pre-calculated Ummul Qura calendar, biasing the witnesses towards it and hence they made an improvement in 2004 (which eventually came into effective from 2012). This improvement has shifted their Hijri date closer to predicted visibility for some months, but not all. [see Saudi Dating System, New Criteria]
Unfortunately, the scholars of Darul Uloom Bury have not changed their position from following Saudi Arabia over past 30 years and do not examine the accuracy/validity of reports required by Shariah. And, since their students are the Imams of many UK Mosques, the division/split at Ramadan and two Eids continues year-after-year on an ongoing basis.
Therefore, our ICOUK members would like to request the scholars of Darul Uloom Bury to review their moon sighting position and consider adopting the Regional Moon Sighting Criteria for the UK (https://goo.gl/JtRUiw), which has been proven to work satisfactorily under the UK adverse weather conditions over many years.
Ref: Solar eclipse proves the inaccuracy of the Saudi Ummul Qura calendar (https://goo.gl/uM5dMb)
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Former Chelsea players, Thibaut Courtois and Alvaro Morata will be the highlight of the 2019 Madrid derby as Atletico Madrid host Real Madrid at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium Today.
With Thibaut Courtois now with Real Madrid having previously played for Atletico Madrid and Alvaro Morata now with Atletico Madrid having previously played for Real Madrid both players will play key roles if selected.
The Madrid Derby is now upon us, the second biggest derby in Spain behind the El classico, both Madrid teams have had mixed results this season.
Real Madrid have been consistent since they were beaten by Real Sociedad in January 6, they have gone on to win 4 games in a row in Laliga for the first time this season.
For ATLETICO, their situation havent changed much has they continue to have mixed results, they've only won 2 matches from the last 4 matches and they are just 2 point ahead of Madrid.
Real Madrid will be on revenge mission after losing 4-2 against ATLETICO in the Super cup in August and nothing but a win will satisfy Real Madrid in this game.
Atletico have been Barcelona's closest challengers in the league this season, but their defeat at Real Betis last weekend meant that Los Blancos have the chance to rise into second position in Spain's top flight.
Fatigue might well come into play this weekend as Madrid have played a lot of football in recent weeks, but Los Blancos are full of confidence and will be desperate to return to second position in the table.
Key players for both teams: REAL Madrid will hope to have Vinicious Junior on his best today if they are to get anything from this game while ATLETICO will hope on the efficiency of Griezmann to dispatch any chance that gets to him.
Team News: Atletico captain Diego Godin missed the defeat at Betis last weekend with a muscular problem, but should return to the XI for this match.
Meanwhile, Koke and Saul Niguez should also be fit having also missed the defeat at Betis through injury.
Costa is still unavailable, however, as he recovers from foot surgery, while Stefan Savic's absence with an Achilles problem means that Jose Gimenez will continue in central defence.
Thomas Partey and Rodri Hernandez will both continue in midfield for the home team, while Morata is expected to start against his former club.
As for Real Madrid, Jesus Vallejo and Enzo Zidane are still out with hamstring problems, while Marcos Llorente will miss out with the groin problem that he suffered against Barcelona.
It is likely that Solari will start Marco Asensio and Gareth Bale who didn't start in the midweek clash against Barcelona.
The midfield picks itself with Casemiro joining Luka Modric and Toni Kroos, but considering how Marcelo struggled against Barcelona, Sergio Reguilon could return to the side at left-back.


This year, one Hudson Valley professor marked a milestone that no faculty member before him can claim: English professor James Slattery has taught at Hudson Valley for 50 years.
His accomplishment was recognized at the college's annual Meritorious Service Awards on Dec. 8, where he became the first and only college employee to receive a 50-year pin. When he took to the stage to accept that pin, his one simple remark said it all: "Thank you. I truly love Hudson Valley."
Like many great love stories, this one began almost by accident. When Professor Slattery joined the Hudson Valley faculty in 1967, he was just out of college and teaching high school in Schoharie. While he was working on his master's degree, a friend suggested he try teaching college. He was skeptical, unsure of whether he wanted or was suited to the task. But ultimately, he decided to give Hudson Valley a shot—and the rest is history.
Professor Slattery has been teaching English classes at the college ever since. Technically, he retired from his full-time teaching position in December of 2000, but it was hardly a break—he returned as a part-time faculty member in January 2001. He currently teaches public speaking, creative writing, and short story classes, and has no plans to slow down anytime soon. After all this time, a Hudson Valley classroom is still his favorite place to be.
"Teaching is, for me, a gift," he explains. "There's nothing more rewarding to me than influencing students' lives."
Professor Slattery says he's been lucky to be able to hear generations of those students' stories in his classroom. "I'm fortunate to be able to have the interaction with students as individual human beings—not just people who happen to be sitting in front of me at desks," he explains.
Some have hidden talents that he thrives on helping bring to light. Others tell heartfelt stories in class that they might not share anywhere else, providing a rare glimpse into their internal worlds. But while the details may differ, and the times have changed, he says that at the heart of it, the students and their stories remain mostly the same.
"In the sixties and seventies, we had anti-war protests, the civil rights movement, all the culture changes - the Vietnam veterans coming home, and the impact that had. And I heard all those stories in class. And now, I have veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we're seeing protests and talking about equal rights," he says. "The times change - the clothes change, the trends and styles change, but at heart, a lot of it is the same. They're the stories of America. They're the stories of Hudson Valley. They're the stories of students who, whether they had some traumatic event happen or if they're just "normal;" they come here and they get to start a new life."
Another thing that hasn't changed? The spirit of Hudson Valley - and what it's meant to him to be a part of the family here for so long. He says that he met some of his best friends and the most important people in his life at Hudson Valley. Even his wife, Pam, is a fellow Hudson Valley faculty member, in the Nursing department.
"This place has kept me real," he confides. "That's one reason I love it so much. Life is not about the view from some ivory tower, and because I was here, I never lost touch. And the other thing I love about Hudson Valley is that I met so many people who became so important to me here. From students to co-workers to custodians—Hudson Valley is a family, and like family, they take care of you."
Professor Slattery's educational philosophy is simple—and it might be more of a life philosophy, which is fitting coming from a person for whom teaching and life are so closely intertwined. "I believe in education," he says. "By that I mean, I believe that your education will continue whether you like it or not, because life is full of constant change. The question is, how do I become more? You need to be able to open your mind to other parts of life, and if it comes to you that there's something you want to do, and it's logical, possible, and worthwhile, then just do it."
So what's next? Sure, he's got a few vacations he'd like to take, but nothing that would cause him to stop teaching entirely, a scenario he says is difficult for him to imagine.
"I'll keep doing this until I can't anymore," he says.
What's keeping him interested in this career, long past the point that many people retire? For one, it's the students, who he says he's eternally grateful to. "Those students are the reason we're here," he points out. "Without them, none of us would have a reason to keep doing this."
But there's a more philosophical reason, too. He refers to a question posed by his favorite author, Leo Tolstoy, in his novella "The Death of Ivan Ilych"—one of the first pieces Professor Slattery taught to his early English classes at the college. "In the book, the question you get to is, 'What gives your life meaning?' For me, that's teaching here. I get to have a positive effect on other people every single day. That's the key to meaning in my life."


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The Movies Aren't Dead, they just smell funny: Part III
Tags: 24, Billy Wilder, Bones, Boris, Brett Ratner, CGI, Christopher Nolan, Fast Five, Flatliners, Godunov, Golden Age of Hollywood, GQ, Joel Schumacher, Johnson, Lost Boys, Mark Harris, Michael Fassbender, Phone Booth, Pirates 2, Prince of Persia, Shame, Steve McQueen, The Adjustment Bureau, The Bounty Hunter, The Client, The Dark Knight, The Day the Movies Died, The Hulk, The Lord of the Rings, The Rock, Tom McCarthy, Troll Hunter, Vin Diesel, Win Win
Mark Harris' GQ article 'The Day the Movies Died' rightly notes that the standard which journeymen film-makers operate at has collapsed, but I want to add studio tactics, lazy CGI, and a hype machine eating itself as elements working against cinema, in addition to his recurring and important culprit – marketers.
Harris quotes a studio executive as lamenting, "We don't tell stories anymore." Well, Hollywood does tell stories, the problem is (as noted in a previous piece) all the screenwriting is apparently done by deeply jaded supercomputers which have been programmed with all the right story structure software but just can't find it in their diodes to generate any surprises. The Dark Knight astounded because of its sense of creeping unease that this really could go anywhere. Could the Joker really blow up two boats full of people? Yes, after what he'd done up to that point, sitting in the cinema you were sick with suspense that Nolan would go that far in letting this supervillain off the leash. I praised Win Win for the same quality, that you couldn't easily predict what was going to happen next and therefore got nervous for the characters' fates in a way you usually don't, and indeed noted that the delightfully ramshackle Troll Hunter also had a surprisingly clear three-act structure, in retrospect. The point with all of these films is that they're so successful in dazzling the audience with their content that no one is looking at the structure while they're watching it. Which is at it should be, Billy Wilder after all having said plot points were more effective the better a job you made of hiding them. Nolan and McCarthy are serious writer/directors and there will always be enough such 'auteurs' to make a crop of quality films every year. The problem is that mediocre films can't cloak their structure with content, and so you notice just how clichéd they are. Harris brilliantly isolates The Bounty Hunter and Prince of Persia as 'the new okay', the film that is just about worth the ticket price but won't linger in your memory.
Harris is very funny in noting just how disastrous a decline a system has to be in for films like those two flops to become the new benchmark of competence. He blames marketers who thought from the poster, and the existing brand, backwards to making the film, rather than from a good story forwards. But I think his characterisation of such mid-range movies as the greatest victim of Hollywood's "collective inattention/indifference to the basic virtues of story development" is unjust. Prince of Persia is a good brand for a computer game, but offers nothing new for cinema audiences. The Bounty Hunter's poster and tagline might have presaged a good movie, if someone had written it. There is a trend in Hollywood of pleasing the top brass by writing 'stories' that hit every mark they're supposed to, but the craft has overtaken the art, these aren't stories that need to be told, the writer is merely assembling a product, not channelling inspiration. Joel Schumacher for me represents the height from which journeymen have fallen. Movies like Flatliners or The Client set the bar far higher than any workaday studio production today. They don't dazzle with content in the way I've discussed, but the structure doesn't obtrude because they're tremendously entertaining films. We need journeymen today to aspire to that level of basic competency in entertaining with a nice but not spectacular concept neatly done. I know that Joel Schumacher is not of beloved of most people as he is of me (I actually feel bad at not trying to pass him off as an auteur), but the man who made solid entertainments like Lost Boys and Phone Booth seems to be exactly the sort of person we're lacking right now, stuck as we are with Brett Ratner as this generation's equivalent.
I think the decline in the aims of screenwriting and journeymen directing is part of a deep malaise of 'it'll do' that has fallen over Hollywood. We now have CGI being as obnoxiously fake as 1950s back-projection, but for worse reasons. There were actual technical difficulties, as well as laziness, involved with avoiding location shooting back then. Now, every time a TV show uses an obvious CGI backdrop for an outdoor dialogue scene (Bones) or an hysterically fake moving background for car scenes (24) it's because they can't be bothered going outside when they can just shoot it in a green room and expect the audience to put up with it. The laziness of omnipresent CGI can be demonstrated by some great practical magic in The Adjustment Bureau.
BORIS: So, we need to move from a bathroom in a building to the field of Yankee Stadium in one continuous tracking shot thru a door.
JOHNSON: Well, we'll just CGI it right?
BORIS: Move from a bathroom into a green screen room and then pan around, and add in the Stadium later? I like it.
GODUNOV: Or, we could just build a bathroom set on the field of Yankee Stadium and shoot it without any CGI at all.
BORIS: Oh. (beat) How very… practical…
People don't think about options anymore, they just use CGI. I've noted this before when wondering why the Hulk can't be played by an actor anymore using Lord of the Rings-style perspective tricks to make someone like The Rock truly loom over people. CGI always has to be used, because that's what's done. Scripts have to be written according to a flow chart, because that's what's done. And, I think one of the biggest problems we're faced with because of the rise of the marketer's love of brand, and the concomitant franchise movie, is the Hollywood hype machine which now fundamentally distorts the way in which writers pen, and audiences view, sequels. Every sequel now has to be bigger and better and feature higher stakes, because that's what's done. The result is bloated messes like Pirates 2. In the Golden Age of Hollywood people might just make a sequel if they had a good idea and wanted to have fun with the same characters again, or if they didn't have any good ideas they might instead just round up the same guys for another original movie. I interpret Fast Five as pretty much a return to that older approach. Fast Five's trailer has clearly given up on the idea that these films are getting bigger and better. Vin Diesel promises us that they'll get caught or killed one day, but not today, situating the film as just another chapter in the continuing adventures of some petrol-head loveable rogues. If it can return us to a slightly less hysterical and creatively self-defeating approach to franchises then the successful but utterly inconsequential Fast Five may well prove to be the saviour of modern cinema. I may be embellishing that…
In conclusion (at long last) The Movies Aren't Dead. Shame arrives in January. I've seen it and Steve McQueen's second film as director, again with Talking Movies' favourite Michael Fassbender as his leading man, is a devastating piece of work that shows what's possible aesthetically and emotionally if you can free yourself from the self-defeating commercial strictures currently strangling cinema.
Troll Hunter
Tags: Andre Ovredal, Cloverfield, Dean Winchester, Dexter, Edvard Grieg, Finn Haugan, Ghostfacers!, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Hans Morten Hansen, Henrik Ibsen, Johanna Morck, Jotnars, Jurassic Park, Otto Jespersen, Peer Gynt, Richard Dawkins, Ringelfinch, Sam Winchester, Supernatural, The Hall of the Mountain King, Tomas Alf Larsen, Tosserlads, Troll Hunter, Troll Security Service, Trolljegeren, Urmilla Berg-Domaas, UV, Volda College
Since the 1970s there has been only one man in all Norway who dares to fight in the Hall of the Mountain King, who possesses the strength and skill to defeat the Tosserlads and Jotnars. He is Hans – the Troll Hunter!
Three kids from Volda College try to make a documentary about a series of unusual bear deaths but things get wildly out of hand when they try to surreptitiously film a man they suspect of being a bear-poacher… There's a healthy feel of Cloverfield in how one actor is unseen for most of the 'found footage' as he's stuck behind the camera filming events, and how despite nightmarish encounters the need to 'document' overcomes the need to survive. There's also a solid three act structure to be retrospectively found in the ramshackle series of events, with an amazingly logical maguffin unveiled at the end. The moment when the students are surprised by the panicked 'poacher' running past them shouting "Troll!" is reminiscent of the episode of Supernatural where the Winchester brothers explode into the home-movies of amateur occultists filming their own terrible pilot Ghostfacers! And just as the Winchesters took the Ghostfacers (!) under their wing to fight scary monsters, Hans allows the students a peek behind the curtain.
Be forewarned that first glimpse of a troll is a bit disappointing after some truly wonderful sound effects, but as the film proceeds the trolls become scary because of how large and stupidly vicious they are. The battle with an aggressive Ringelfinch on a bridge is a supremely scary encounter, complete with a Jurassic Park homage as the troll-hunter uses a goat for bait to the dismay of the vegetarian boom-operator. Otto Jespersen is wonderful as Hans, equally battle-weary and stoically efficient. The scene-stealing character though is Finn Haugan, the hapless bureaucrat (with a curiously Irish sounding name) heading the Troll Security Service whose unenviable job is covering up Hans' activity, with the help of extremely dodgy Polish bear-hunters (who cause more problems than they solve) and nonsensical press releases.
Writer/director Andre Ovredal make wonderful use of pseudo-science in explaining how trolls turn to stone when exposed to sunlight or the rig of UV bulbs our hero keeps on top of his car and is quite remarkably adept at mixing comedy and horror. A wonderful running gag utilising the legend of Trolls being able to smell the blood of a Christian man becomes intensely suspenseful, even as it satirically skewers the tyranny of Dawkins and his ilk in removing religion from 'liberal' public discourse. The finale has an incredible sense of peril as our heroes attack the 200 ft giant Jotnar with a jeep as robust against this creature as the mosquito in the opening credits is against Dexter.
Troll Hunter isn't on wide release but its mordant horror deserves the widest possible audience.


Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Ben Kingsley star in a film written by John Logan, based on the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, and directed by Martin Scorsese.
Martin Scorsese enters family-friendly turf with Hugo, a visually impressive if somewhat disjointed ode to silent film starring Asa Butterfield (above) as the clock-tending title character.
By rights, this ought to be an important film: a valentine to the history of cinema from an undeniable part of its grand chronicle. Hugo presents the story of how Georges Méliès (Ben Kingsley), the inventor of fantastic film, was "rediscovered" by children. Better yet, it takes the form of an ostensible kiddie adventure movie, made by none other than Martin Scorsese, the poet of the mean streets. Of course, it doesn't work, but you may find it hard to resist the passions surrounding this doomed effort.
The problem is Hugo's hybrid nature. Two movies overlap here: the first concerning Hugo (Asa Butterfield), a boy who lives in the walls of a Paris train station and tends to its big clocks, all shot in dramatic, antique-looking 3-D and made to resemble Scorsese's signature long tracking shots. This film tries so hard to convince us of its artistry, using gears and automatons as major motifs, and yet it sprawls in clumsy fashion into another movie, a lecture on the history of silent films. The parts dovetail, but soon we realize that not much has happened and none of it moved like clockwork.
But the experience is ravishing. Scorsese loads every scene with detail, the same devil that drove The Age of Innocence like a grand time machine. When Hugo edges out on a clock tower way above Paris, holding onto the giant minute hand (à la Harold Lloyd), we see the steel surface dusted with icy snow and feel its slippery dangers. The re-creation of Méliès's studio is gorgeous, too: a dream sequence involving trains and clockwork people that will haunt you days later.
But Scorsese tries too hard — like he did in Gangs of New York and Shutter Island — for effect without depth, and it's not really meant for kids. In the old days, Scorsese made movies from within that may have meandered but always connected. Some critics have called this his most personal work, but aside from the obvious love of film he exhibits, you'll probably prefer he leave the big train station of history and get back to the streets.


A shift is happening in the global discourse around teachers. While much of the emphasis used to be placed on teacher accountability, in recent years there has been an increasing focus on how to better support, motivate and professionalize the teaching profession.
For sustained motivation, teachers and school leaders need spaces where they can get training, interact and collaborate as professionals, and where they can talk freely without feeling that they are being judged or controlled. Teachers and school leaders need to get recognition from, and feel valued by, the children they teach but also from the societies they serve: there needs to be a continuum to foster motivation not only at the school level but also in a wider system perspective.
A panel held at the CIES 2018 presented the work of three institutions – STiR education, VVOB – Education for Development and IIEP-UNESCO – engaged in initiatives aimed at promoting teachers' and school leaders' competence and motivation at different levels, through networks or professional learning communities and career management.
In India and Uganda, the NGO STiR Education has been working on the development of teacher networks as an enabler of and a force for motivation and professional development. Teachers with ties to their colleagues and a sense of shared purpose and momentum will be less likely to leave the profession. In addition, autonomy, or the authority to make decisions based on professional experience and trust, is critical for teacher motivation. Findings from two impact evaluations in India indicate that teachers in these networks are spending a significantly greater amount of time in class actually teaching. The monetary value of this additional teaching time—measured in terms of teacher salary—is over eight times the cost of running the teacher networks. Teacher networks can thus be a potential source of teacher motivation, and teacher effectiveness in improving classroom practices and student learning. However, adequate systemic conditions, especially support structures and school leadership, also need to be met, for this to be effective. In response to this learning, STIR is deeply embedding its approach in government structures to ensure improvements in intrinsic motivation not just among students and teachers but also among officials at all levels of the system. Intrinsic motivation can thereby play a critical role in ensuring a fertile soil for more technical interventions to flourish through a culture of continuous improvement in the education system.
Effective school leadership is associated with greater student well-being and better learning outcomes. The relationship is strong and research indicates that it works primarily through improved teacher motivation and working conditions. The Rwanda Education Board (REB) has developed professional standards for effective school leadership, which identify the main competences and work roles needed for effective head teachers: setting strategic direction; leading the school as an organization; leading teaching and learning; and engaging with parents and the wider community. Motivating teachers is an integral part of three of these. To make sure these standards are met, the Education Sector Strategic Plan prioritises the professional development of head teachers. Two modalities are in place: professional learning communities (PLCs), where head teachers are coached by trained Sector Education Officers; and a competence-based diploma course for head teachers, offered by the University of Rwanda – College of Education (URCE).
VVOB has carried out two studies in Rwanda to explore the hypothesis that well-designed professional development opportunities will positively influence self-determined motivation and a transformational leadership style of school leaders. Focus group discussions revealed that head teachers' participation in the PLCs met their basic need for relatedness, autonomy and competence, increasing their intrinsic motivation. This was primarily achieved through the building of positive relationships with others both within and outside the school. Findings from the same study indicated that in turn, motivated head teachers motivate their teachers by improving working conditions that meet teachers' basic needs.
Governments are also looking for systemic solutions to overcome the global teacher motivation crisis and reprofessionalize the profession. In this attempt, an increasing number of countries is moving away from traditional career structures, where all teachers progress along the salary scale at the same pace, towards more sophisticated career schemes introducing greater recognition and opportunities for promotion to teachers. Teacher career reforms come also as a result of broader public sector reforms that have been importing private sector managerial techniques for many years. IIEP-UNESCO's research identified three emerging models of career organization – bonuses, salary progression based on evaluation, and career ladders – that all include a component of performance management. While research into the psychology of motivation shows that bonus pay based on students' performance may ultimately undermine teacher motivation, the career ladder model appears to be more promising in theory. By widening horizontal and vertical advancement opportunities, career ladders offer teachers a pathway for professional growth by encouraging them to improve, and to gain responsibility and autonomy over the direction of their careers.
IIEP-UNESCO investigated three cases – Ecuador, New York City, and the Western Cape in South Africa – that have tried to widen career opportunities for teachers. Research findings show that although teachers value having the opportunity to choose between different pathways, the career ladder model and attached evaluation modes are difficult to implement in practice. Such a scheme requires a well-established set of conditions to be able to act positively on teacher motivation. These implementation challenges, combined with a perceived threat to job stability and increased competition, explain why some countries remain opposed to the introduction of greater differentiation between teachers. Yet, in an age of performance management, teacher career reforms often appear as inevitable. Countries entering in this process can learn from IIEP-UNESCO's research that highlights the need for adopting an incremental approach to implementation in consultation with teachers.
Initiatives and research undertaken at the school and system level help provide a basis for advancing the understanding around teacher motivation and its conditions in different geographical settings. The various approaches presented above show how initiatives to foster teacher motivation can be multi-level and complimentary. It follows that concerted efforts and comprehensive strategies should be encouraged to increase the likelihood of having a lasting impact on teacher motivation.